Word: bottome
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...news of other learned societies, see SCIENCE. †The famed West Virginia-Kentucky feud, which began with either1) an elopement or 2) a stolen pig shortly after the Civil War, reached a climax battle 20 years ago (47 killed, 100 wounded). *At the bottom of the scroll, the President hedged: "Valid if said Watson is a full-blooded Seminole Indian. I think he is." *Not to be confused with the Dalai Lama, temporal ruler of Tibet. The Panchen Lama is Tibet's spiritual ruler...
...Angelic Bottom. When the War of the Spanish Succession (England, Austria, Holland and Prussia v. France and Spain) broke out, Parma's Duke sided with the French. Abbe Alberoni, 33, was among those sent to pay little Parma's respects to French Marshal Vendome. The haughty Marshal received the Parmesan statesmen by rising from his privy seat and turning his bare butt to them. Cried Abbe Alberoni: "Checulo d'angelo!" ("What an angelic bottom!") Marshal Vendome was enchanted, soon signed Alberoni on as his private secretary. The shrewd secretary bought Vendome's vain generals new wigs...
Scoring all their runs in the first two innings, the Crimson protected their lead to the end. Wallace struck out nine men and was extremely effective when it really counted. After pushing over two runs in the bottom half of the first inning, the best the Camp Thomas men could do was chalk up single tallies in the fifth and eighth...
...least a footnote in history to a man hardly known to the U.S. public. Son of a wealthy Michigan lumberman (six generations of Averys have been lumber men), Sewell Avery was born in Saginaw in 1874. After graduation from Michigan University Law School (1894), he started at the bottom in a small gypsum plant owned by his father. At 22 he was manager. In 1901 the company was absorbed by the U.S. Gypsum Co.; four years later, Sewell Avery was president of U.S. Gypsum. A suave and brilliant supersalesman, he built the company into an $81,000,000 concern, made...
...fighters went up. Off Bodö in northern Norway, through wind-tossed snow and rain, they sighted a German convoy - four merchantmen and five escorts. The British attacked. They hit all nine ships, set fires on several, sent one to the beach and one, they believed, to the bottom...